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The Honest Whore choose

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[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 V ii : Ile be madder than a roasted Cat.
at mad as..., adj.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I viii: A plague on ’em, ther’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder than March hares.
at ...a (March) hare under mad as..., adj.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I ii: To call you one a mine Aunts, sister, were as good as call you arrant whore; no, no, let me alone to cozen you rarely.
at aunt, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 II i: A harlot [...] Swallows both English, Spanish, fulsome Dutch, / Back-door’d Italian, last of all the French.
at back-door, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III iii: Thou wert honest at flue, and now th’art a Puncke at fifteene: thou wert yesterday a simple whore, and now th’art a cunning Conny-catching Baggage to day.
at baggage, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I i: Nay indeed you shall not goe: weele run at barlibreake first, and you shall be in hell.
at barley-break, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 IV iii: Who the pox should come along with you but Bots?
at bots, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III iii: Thou wert honest at fiue, and now th’art a Puncke at fifteene: thou wert yesterday a simple whore, and now th’art a cunning Conny-catching Baggage to day.
at cony-catching, adj.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III i: This should be a Coronation day; for my head runnes Claret lustily.
at claret, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III iii: You, goody Punck, subaudi Cockatrice, O yare a sweet whore of your promise.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 IV ii: Cods life I was neere so thrumd since I was a gentleman.
at cod, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III ii: Mary come vp with a pox, haue you no body to raile against, but your Bawd now?
at marry come up!, excl.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I i: Heeres a coile for a dead commoditie, sfoote women when they are aliue are but dead commodities.
at commodity, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 II i : Your body, Its like the common shoare, that still receiues All the townes filth.
at common shore, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I ii: Why sister do you thinke Ile cunni-catch you, when you are my coosen?
at conycatch, v.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I iv: What? you pyed curtal, what’s that you are neighing?
at curtal, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I iii: Plague him, set him beneath the salt, and let him not touch a bit, till every one has had his cut.
at cut, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III ii: God dam me, Gentlemen, if she be within.
at god-damn, v.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 V ii : Thou wilt daunce in a halter, and I shal not see thee.
at dance, v.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III i: The Divels dung in thy teeth.
at devil’s dung (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III ii: I ha not eaten one goode meale this three and thirty dayes [...] but now those dayes are past: we had as good doings, Madona Fingerlocke she within dores and I without, as any poore yong couple.
at doings, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III iii: I haue heard many honest wenches turne strumpets with a wet finger.
at finger, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I ii: I had not saild a league in that great fishpond but I cast vp my very gall .
at fishpond (n.) under fish, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I viii: Fluello, spurne your hounds when they foiste, you shal not spurne my Puncke.
at foist, v.2
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I v: Ha signior; haz he fitted your French curse?
at French crown (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I ii: A harlot [...] swallowes [...] the French, And he sticks to you faith: giues you your diet, Brings you acquainted, first with monsier Doctor, And then you know what follows.
at French, n.
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 IV ii: This shal hang him by th’ gills.
at gills, n.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 IV i: wife: He talkes to himselfe, oh hees much gone indeed. [...] cand.: What? am I mad say you, and I not know it? off.: That proues you mad, because you know it not.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 V ii: Out, you guls, you goose-caps, you gudgeon-eaters!
at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
[UK] Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I iii: 1 ser.: Ile speake Greeke, my Lord, ere I speake that deadly word. 2 ser.: And Ile speak Welch, which is harder than Greek.
at Greek, n.
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